Antonyms for percolate
ˈpɜr kəˌleɪt; -lɪt, -ˌleɪt; ˈpɜr kyəˌleɪt; ˈɛs kyəˌleɪtper·co·late

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1. percolate

   Antonyms:
   absorb, retain

   Synonyms:
   strain, niter, exude, ooze

Matched Categories

1. • Percolate
   • Recuperate
   • Spread
   • Trickle

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1. percolateverb

   the product of percolation

2. leach, percolateverb

   permeate or penetrate gradually

   "the fertilizer leached into the ground"

   Synonyms:
   filter, pick up, permeate, perk, strip, perk up, leach, sink in, gain vigor

3. percolateverb

   spread gradually

   "Light percolated into our house in the morning"

   Synonyms:
   filter, permeate, gain vigor, perk up, pick up, perk, leach, sink in

4. percolateverb

   prepare in a percolator

   "percolate coffee"

   Synonyms:
   filter, permeate, gain vigor, perk up, pick up, perk, leach, sink in

5. percolateverb

   cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent

   Synonyms:
   filter, permeate, gain vigor, perk up, pick up, perk, leach, sink in

6. percolate, sink in, permeate, filterverb

   pass through

   "Water permeates sand easily"

   Synonyms:
   click, separate out, penetrate, perk up, dawn, leach, dribble, permeate, get through, diffuse, sink in, strain, gain vigor, come home, filter, perk, imbue, filtrate, pervade, riddle, pick up, get across, fall into place, filter out, interpenetrate, trickle

7. perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigorverb

   gain or regain energy

   "I picked up after a nap"

   Synonyms:
   gain vigor, cop, peck, call for, arouse, nail, energize, lift up, perk up, arrest, gather up, get word, nab, stimulate, energise, see, receive, collect, learn, filter, leach, permeate, collar, turn around, apprehend, get a line, uplift, find out, sink in, pick up, brace, elate, catch, hear, get wind, perk, discover, intoxicate

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1. percolateverb

   Synonyms:
   ooze, strain, filter, transude

How to use percolate in a sentence?

1. Chirag Dekate:

   It's not just a jingoistic race between the U.S. and China, the innovations that Intel is developing here will percolate down to other parts of its business.

2. Orrin Hatch:

   Sometimes you just have to let it percolate for a while.

3. Anselmo Collins:

   When we know that we're going to get significant storms in the LA area, we obviously work really closely with LA County flood control, if they happen to have a lot of water stored in their flood control dams, they can release that water ahead of time ; give it an opportunity to percolate and make room in those dams and the reservoirs to be able to collect the water that's coming in at the same time.

4. John Banzhaf:

   These decisions are harbingers, it does take time for new ideas to percolate through the system.

5. Alex Wagner:

   The streams percolate out of the Milky Way's dense gas disk, the jet diverges from a pencil beam into tendrils, like that of an octopus.

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